Craig R. McClanahan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Some of the user interface folks at Sun were kind enough to build a mockup
> of what an Administration Webapp for Tomcat 4 might look like. You can
> see the mockup for yourself at:
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/~craigmcc/TomcatAdminPrototype/
>
> Please take a look and provide feedback to TOMCAT-DEV to guide the
> development of this application.
If you can remove that "pink" on top, I would be grateful, and on the
overall, it doesn't render "that" great on OS/X. I would suggest living
buttons and clickables up to their native representation, since they look
better in every different environment (unless you don't want to really style
up things right)... One more thing on the aesthetic side, is that
"cracquelure" background (soooo PhotoShop), I would prefer it plain...
I hope all HTML is not "hard coded" so that someone (who's not an engineer,
but has some aesthetic taste) could tweak them (like, the menu on the left
looks really like an applet.. But it's javascript...)...
Functionality wise, AFAICS, it's good... Just make sure not to be tied to
the "default" idea of having Server/Service/Host/Context, because the more I
think about it, the more it's flood...
IMO the "Host" part, should be delegated to the connector, because it's
really there (in HTTP) where it resides...
The separation should be made in two levels: A container of contexts,
containing all the set of the deployed applications, and at the connector
level, you simply "mount" that application under a specific virtual host...
I'm integrating this concept in the WebApp module, and in all those
situations where the HTTP connector is decoupled from the container itself,
that's absolutely a must... So, even tomcat, at the end should behave in
that way.
Tomcat is a web application container, good, how those applications are seen
from HTTP should be delegated to the connector (since tomorrow servlets
might not only be HTTP, but also SIP... See JSR-116).
Pier
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